North York Arts is co-presenting with YYZ Artists’ Outlet a partnered exhibition in the Lower Gallery at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. I'll be presenting Several Attempts to Stop Crying on Demand.
Exhibition January 15-February 2, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday January 15, 5:30-7:30pm Toronto Center for the Arts: 5040 Yonge Street, Toronto
The OAC National and International Residency program supports artists through periods of research, exploration, regeneration and rejuvenation and provides access to new cultural surroundings outside Ontario for one to three months. Grants cover travel, accommodation, living expenses, and personal insurance. This grant will afford me the opportunity to attend a month-long residency at the Banff Centre.
I'm pleased to join the Board of Directors at the NAC for 2014-2016. The NAC has always been supportive of my practice and I'm looking forward to working on the Programming Committee.
More information about the Niagara Artists Centre can be found here.
Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for their on-going financial support.
I'm exhibiting The Promise That Tomorrow Made Yesterday at The New Gallery in Calgary for December & January 2015. The +15 Window Space is a vitrine located in the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts.
YYZ is presenting weekly solo exhibitions in their front window space by each of the twelve YYZLAB participants. Alicia Kuntze and I will be presenting new collaborative work, Because Everyone Needs Their Hand Held Sometimes, November 22 - December 4. More information can be found here.
I'll be showing video work from the series I'm Ambitious When Giving Up at The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California. The exhibition You Should Not Be Here runs November 1 - December 6.
For the month of October I'll be exhibiting the series Democracy NOW! at Figg Street Co. in Thorold. This is part of their 'First Thursdays' programming which provides opportunity to local artists to show and sell work. Join us Thursday 2 October from 6-9pm at 40 Front Street South.
You're Invited!! As participaints in the YYZ Lab Summer Mentoring and Residency Program we're holding an Open House at YYZ on Saturday 23 August! New work and projects in development will be shown and plans for future group exhibitions will be discussed!! Tell your friends!! 140-401 Richmond St. W. in Toronto!
Heyyyyyyyy. Alicia Kuntze and I have started an Instagram account under our collaborative alias' of Flossy and Fancy. We have no idea what absurdity might come of this so "follow" us and stay tuned! Link can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/flossyandfancy/
Tangled Art + Disability have invited me to participate in an action research project sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council. The project is intended to engage practicing artists with disabilities and Deaf artists to develop artwork, and to produce descriptions of their practices, artistic processes, and experiences as a means of identifying the challenges, successes, barriers and opportunities they encounter.
This summer YYZ is running a month-long directed mentoring and educational residency for emerging visual artists, independent curators, and new Canadians with professional arts training who live beyond the downtownwn core. Through a series of facilitated seminars, studio visits, and critiques, participants have the chance to further their practice, make connections, and develop a body of work for exhibition.
This is my postcard submission for a cooperative exhibition between Loft and Meet&Go in Strasbourg, France. The theme for the exhibition is "Borders". The end of my residency in Taipei, where this work was made, ended up being a very political and emotional time for both Taiwan and myself. Protests in the capital were close to home - so close in fact that police brutality broke out on 23 March outside our front door, which was located across the street from the Executive Yuan. The series consists of drawings of urban plans or maps of Zhongshan district and then bullets are fired through the 300lb paper.
NAC Member of the Moment Laurie Morrison has some nice things to say about me! Check out her interview and consider becoming a member at the Niagara Artists Centre: https://nac.org/blog/nacs-member-of-the-moment-laurie-morrison/
New work from my solo exhibition little tremors has been uploaded to the website.
This work includes "Für Elise, Revisited" which is a duet/ collaboration with the garbage trucks of Taiwan. The garbage trucks in Taipei play one of Beethoven's most familiar pieces to signal to people to bring down their garbage for nightly collection. I haven't played this song since I was 10 years old; during the past few months I've been relearning how to read sheet music and play the piano.
Just an updated image from the Spring Open Studio that happened March 22 & 23 at the Taipei Artist Village.
Moving on is always something I struggle with and in that reflection I wrapped everything I own and everything in my studio in plastic wrap in hopes to perserve the present moment for a time when I can return and resume life as though nothing has changed.
Solo exhibition titled 'little tremors' opens 15 March and runs until the end of the month.
Included in this exhibit are six new projects that have been conceived and realized during my time in Taiwan.
Address: No.11 & 13. Lane 59, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei. MRT: Gongguan
Untitled (for Elizabeth) is included in the "With my < >, trade your < >" exhibition.
The exhibition at Taipei Artist Village runs until 9 March.
Spring Open Studio! Weekend of March 22 & 23.
Events include artists open studios, artist talk, some sort of market and a promise of music. There's also a little drawing of a full pint on the invite, which looks equally promising.
For this Open Studio I'll be making a site specific project, which is reflective of my waning time here.
I'm in Studio 202, so if you're in the area be sure to stop by!
